SocialSpark 2.NO!
July 14, 2010 
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SocialSpark has been a quality Get Paid to Blog platform for some time now. It has features that other services do not and advertisers seem to enjoy the service. While SocialSpark has not been used on this blog, I have used it before on other blogs. The service was good, but obviously needed to be revamped. Well, everyone welcome SocialSpark 2.0!
I got the email about this change on July 12th, so I figured I would check it out. After I read their blog about the changes, I can honestly say that I was NOT impressed. Most features and changes were great until I stumbled upon their Direct Publishing requirement. This is exactly what it sounds like, where SocialSpark will use your username and password to your blog to automatically upload your post to your blog. You actually write your post in SocialSpark and then the advertiser gets to look at it and ask for changes. This does reduce the amount of times that you have to deal with non payments after you run your post, which was a pain for everyone.
While you do get guaranteed payments, you also give up your login credentials to SocialSpark so they can automatically post to your blog. I am not sure about everyone, but that does not happen on my blogs without careful consideration. We don’t even allow guest authors to have access via different logins. It is to make sure that we have full control over the quality of the content. I think SocialSpark made a huge mistake with this crazy requirement and with other people commenting on this, they agree with me. This is a no-no for most bloggers.
SocialSpark…..Change this crazy requirement and make it optional for bloggers. Do the right thing!
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